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VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook If you prefer practice to theory then this is the ideal book for learning how to install and configure VMware vSphere components. Packed with recipes, it's a hands-on tutorial and reference guide for this unbeatable virtualization product.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849684026
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Performing a Fresh Installation of vSphere 5.1 3. vSphere Auto Deploy 4. ESXi Image Builder 5. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores 6. Managing iSCSI and NFS Storage 7. Profile-driven Storage and Storage I/O Control 8. Configuring the vSphere Network 9. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 10. Configuring vSphere HA 11. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC 12. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager 13. Using vSphere Management Assistant (vMA 5.1) Index

Creating host and VM DRS groups


DRS provides an option to segregate virtual machines and ESXi hosts into their own groups. The groups are used with VM-Host Affinity Rules. These rules do not address individual VMs/hosts. These groups are created using the DRS Groups Manager.

The creation of DRS hosts/VMs groups is a pre-requisite for creating the affinity rules.

How to do it…

The following procedure will help you create host/VM DRS groups:

  1. From the vCenter's inventory home navigate to the Hosts and Clusters view.

  2. Select the cluster and navigate to Manage | Settings | DRS Groups and click on Add… to bring-up the Create DRS Group window.

  3. In the Create DRS Group window supply a name for the group, choose the type as Host DRS Group, and click on the Add button to bring-up the Add DRS Group Member window.

  4. In the Add DRS Group Member window, select the hosts that should be added to the group and click on OK.

  5. The Create DRS Group window should now list all of the hosts added as the to-be members of the...

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